limestone pavement

British  

noun

1. geology a horizontal surface of exposed limestone in which the joints have been enlarged, cutting the surface into roughly rectangular blocks See also clint grike

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Example Sentences

The trail runs past the “Checkerboard,” a limestone pavement formation, and Jeffrey’s Cave.

From Washington Post

They filmed “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” at the top where there’s a limestone pavement, a natural geological phenomenon.

From New York Times

He shows us "clints" and "grykes", which sound like they might be rude, but are actually the slabs and fissures of a limestone pavement.

From The Guardian

It will be seen hereafter that these appendages are homologous with certain organs in other Holothurians, the warts with the anchors corresponding to the limestone pavement covering or partially covering the surface of the Cuvieria, for instance, while those without anchors correspond to the so-called false ambulacra in Pentacta.

From Project Gutenberg

A limestone pavement composed of numerous pieces covers almost the whole surface of the animal; this apparatus corresponds, as we have already mentioned, to the warts containing anchors in the Synapta; but in the latter, the limestone particles are smaller, whereas in the Cuvieria they are developed to a remarkable extent.

From Project Gutenberg